Posted on 06/08/2002 7:42:04 AM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
By TODD HARTMAN DENVER - Poudre High School's decision to play the World anthem for its graduation ceremony sparked an angry reaction from a parent who wanted to hear the national anthem and stirred a dust-up on talk radio this week. Gail Wagner, whose daughter graduated May 24, wrote a letter to the school principal, the district superintendent and the Denver Rocky Mountain News calling the anthem "an insipid little song about a world of peace and love" and an insult to America. She said it took the place of the national anthem. It did not, said Poudre High Principal Sandra Lundt. Lundt said she was surprised to find the decision scolded on Mike Rosen's KOA talk show and Peter Boyles' KHOW show Thursday morning. Lundt said the Fort Collins school has never played the national anthem at its graduation. "This was never meant to take the place of the national anthem," Lundt said. "It's an anthem that really celebrates every nation." Wagner's husband, Fred, and daughter, Erin, also opposed the playing of the world anthem. Erin said she was surprised "The Star Spangled Banner" wasn't played. "It didn't make much sense," Erin said. "We live in America, so they should have played it. I guess I would say I was offended." Lundt said the school's senior class council, a group of 15 to 20 students, participated in the decision to play the world anthem. The school's orchestra, band and choir teamed to perform the piece. The senior class council "was very excited about the opportunity," Lundt said, noting that one of the people who helped promote broader performance of the anthem, Ed Goodman, is a 1973 graduate of Poudre High. The world anthem was conceived in 1996 and completed by 2000. The idea behind the piece, according to the Web site www.worldanthem.org, is this: "We believe there is a wonderful way to bring a message of hope, healing, peace and unification to all people through the universal language of music ... to give the world a gift, to bring about a symbol for peace and a common spirit of trust toward the idea of one people, one world." Its creation, even those involved acknowledge, borders on the bizarre. Music from the anthems of every country in the world were combined in a computer. Using musicology software, a blended creation emerged. The same technique was used to produce the lyrics, according to Goodman. "This is not two bars of 'The Star Spangled Banner,' then a bar of 'O Canada,'" Goodman said. "It's more like if you took all the melodies, harmonies, rhythms and tempos and somehow were able to average them. ... It's very, very sophisticated; it took years of work to accomplish." This means, Goodman said, that the piece wasn't composed by any one person or any one nation. "The point of it was to have one song that all nations could share," he said. The piece has a significant history in Colorado. It was heard for the first time at the Denver Millennium Celebration on Dec. 31, 2000, at the stroke of midnight in conjunction with fireworks, according to historians of the anthem. In November 2001, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra provided the first live performance of the piece. Goodman said that even Air Force's Band of the Rockies is taken with the piece and arranging its own version. It's slated to be played at an upcoming global peace conference in Croatia and at a ceremony celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Peace Corps this summer. The Wagners are not impressed. "No matter how much the principal gushed over the privilege of being one of the first to hear this piece performed, we did not feel privileged or find it inspirational, heartwarming or moving," Gail Wagner wrote to the News.
Debate over anthem surprises principal
Scripps-McClatchy Western Service
June 07, 2002
It's only fitting that such peace be commormorated by such a fine song as this... And sung by Barbra Streisand. (Upchuck bag provided free of charge)
Oh, wait: they want school-aged kids to carry swords, use muskets, and band together to do battle against evil plotters and renegades? Perhaps I misjudged the catchy little tune- and if we were to present and support it in that light, those school administraitors would drop it like a hot potatoe. All for one! One for all! Let her rip!
I got the story from WORLDNETDAILY here; about the 11th story down
that'll show 'em
Heart's Strange Euphoria. Both cruel AND unusual punishment!
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..The point of it was to have one song that all nations could share," he said. ..
Why ???? This is America !! We have an Anthem---one which is revered and respected the world around.
There is no reason on this green earth that I would stand while this is played. No reason.
Tunesmith C.W. McCall of Convoy fame saw this coming back in 1976 and let us know about it as far back as 1976 with this song from his Wilderness album. I wish a few more people had realized what was ahead, way back on that American birthday year, when we were still celebrating the 200th year of Americal Liberty.
There Won't Be No Country Music (There Won't Be No Rock 'N' Roll)
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis)
[Pay attention, I'm only gonna 'splain this to you once.]
Well, it's only gonna be about an hour, friend
'Til they dam your favorite river
So you can water-ski just one more reservior
And them supersonic ships are gonna take you
'Cross a sea of pavement
To one more faceless brickyard on the shore
Yeah, it's only gonna be about an hour or so
'Til they rip off all your mountains, boy
And that one last tired old eagle bites the sand
And all of that high-and-mighty scenery's
Gonna be leveled to the ground, boy
By a bunch a' them mindless strip mines on the land
So listen well, my brothers
When you hear the night wind sigh
And you see the wild goose flying
Through the gray, polluted sky
There won't be no country music
There won't be no rock 'n' roll
'Cause when they take away our country
They'll take away our soul
Well, it's only gonna take about a minute or so
'Til the junkyards fell the prairies, boy
And them smokin' yellow grass fires start to burn
And the warnings on them beer cans
Gonna be buried in them landfills
No deposit, no sad songs, and no returns
Yeah, it's only gonna take about a minute or so
'Til the factories blot the sun out
You gonna have to turn your lights on just to see
And them lights are gonna be neon, sayin'
"Fly Our Jets To Paradise"
And the whole damn world is gonna be made of styrene
So listen well, my brothers
When you hear the night wind sigh
And you see the wild goose flying
Through the gray, polluted sky
There won't be no country music
There won't be no rock 'n' roll
'Cause when they take away our country
They'll take away our soul
Yeah, it's only gonna be about a second, boy
'Til they take away all'a this country
And they'll tell you not to listen to this here song
And that far-off sound of freedom's
Gonna be an echo from the past
And the final tune is gonna be sad and long
And it's only gonna be about an eye-blink, boy
'Til they pull out the wool to blind us
So we just can't read all the messages on the wall
But the only words that matter
Oughta be scribbled all over them billboards
In big old black and bloody letters, ten feet tall
THERE WON'T BE NO COUNTRY MUSIC
THERE WON'T BE NO ROCK 'N' ROLL
'CAUSE WHEN THEY TAKE AWAY OUR COUNTRY
THEY'LL TAKE AWAY OUR SOUL
There won't be no country music
There won't be no rock 'n' roll
'Cause when they take away our country
They'll take away our soul
There won't be no country music
There won't be no rock 'n' roll
'Cause when they take away our country
They'll take away our soul
There won't be no country music
There won't be no rock 'n' roll
'Cause when they take away our country
They'll take away our soul
'Cause when they take away our country
They'll take away our soul
The insanity of the Politically Correct, One World A$$holes needs to be eradicated now, before it infects any more minds made of mush !!
Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!
Molon Labe !!
More specifically, to recreate Eden. What idealist liberals fail to realize is that Eden--the mythical paradise where Adam and Eve could exist without a care in the world--is fundamentally incompatible with human nature. People have an inherent need to do something that matters. When the only thing Adam and Eve could do that would matter was eat the fruit, that made it inevitable that they would do so.
Unfortunately, liberals keep trying to recreate Eden without recognizing that if even God couldn't get it right the first time, there's no way they ever will either.
No one likes us - I don't know why
We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try
But all around even our old friends put us down
Let's drop the big one and see what happens
We give them money - But are they grateful
No, they're spiteful and they're hateful
They don't respect us - so let's surprise them
We'll drop the big one and pulverize them
Asia's crowded and Europe's too old
Africa is far too hot
And Canada is too cold
And South America stole our name
Let's drop the big one
There'll be no one to blame us
We'll save Australia
Don't wanna hurt no kangaroo
We'll build an all American amusement park there
They got surfing too
Boom goes London and boom Paree
More room for you and more room for me
And every city the whole world round
Will just be another American town
Oh how peaceful it will be
We'll set everybody free
You'll wear a Japanese kimono
And there'll be Italian shoes for me
They all hate us any how
So let's drop the big one now
Let's drop the big one now
poem of Randy Newman:
Sometimes, when I've eaten too much chili, with a lot of beans in it, my butt sings the world anthem later...
Notice that the words "freedom" and "liberty" don't appear anywhere in this wonderful "anthem". I guess they just don't appear on the author's radar screen.
I am truly amazed at how things like this continue to pop up everywhere. As much as I dislike the lefty, NWO crowd...I've gotta give them credit...they are as persistent as locusts in a cornfield.
I'm alarmed that this principal was totally blindsided by the parent's anger. It speaks to his general worldview. As far as I'm concerned, a person's reaction to this idea should be a litmus test for his participation in our children's education. If your eyes mist up to the words...you're out. If you want to puke or you get hacked off...you're in.
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